Content
63%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-sequenced research methodology with concrete commands and a usable report scaffold. It loses points for token efficiency (a large inlined report template) and progressive disclosure (no external reference files despite content that would benefit from splitting).
Suggestions
Move the full report scaffold into a `references/report-template.md` and keep only a short structural summary inline, linking out with 'See [report-template.md](references/report-template.md)'.
Merge the redundant 'Quality Standards', 'Special Considerations', and 'Output Requirements' sections into a single concise checklist to cut padding.
Add an explicit feedback loop in Phase 2/3 (e.g. 'If sources conflict, note the disagreement and run one targeted follow-up search to resolve it') to strengthen workflow validation.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and does not over-explain concepts Claude knows, but the ~65-line inlined report scaffold plus overlapping 'Quality Standards', 'Special Considerations', and 'Output Requirements' sections add padding that could be trimmed. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete executable guidance (the `gemini -m gemini-3-preview-p "..."` command with timeout, the `./plans/<plan-name>/reports/YYMMDD-<topic>.md` path, and a copy-paste report scaffold), with minor gaps around the WebSearch fallback query construction. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 1-4 are clearly sequenced and Phase 2 step 4 plus Quality Standards give validation checkpoints (cross-reference sources, check dates); short of 5 because there is no explicit validate->fix->retry feedback loop when sources conflict. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure is clear, but the skill is a single ~160-line monolith with no bundle files: the large report template is inlined and nothing is split into one-level-deep references, so organization could be improved. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |